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"Can't believe that thing's still around. I was hosting a morning show in Athens that covered a lot of badminton—some table tennis too, but badminton, I'd been assured, was going to be "the curling of the Summer Games." (!) There was no script for that rant—just a little dead time—but it got some chuckles and a head shake from my producer. It was a pretty loose show—I'd already explained a team handball's size by comparing it against various members of the melon family, and when I found out that equestrian horses were listed as "equipment" I did a rant on the fact that horses needed passports to get into the country and dramatically produced one, so surely they needed an identity upgrade..

"That sort of nonsense got me a hosting gig on Torino's Olympic Ice show, which is still one of my all-time favorite scams. Don't know if it's still kicking around, but maybe my salute to Guido The Zamboni Guy is still out there from that wackadoodle show..

"Don't know how I stay employed,carillo

Mary Carillo is cool as hell. Also, someone please bring us her salute to Guido the Zamboni Guy.

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We need help surviving this place. Physically, mentally, and emotionally. Trying to pick up small things wherever we can but grocery money from our parents isn’t consistent and we have 18 cents in our account rn.

Any bit helps. Please if you can donate or share. We are barely making it through every day right now. We want to survive this place.

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It's never done that before so I looked it up and turns out Roku TVs have added all sorts of creepy things in the privacy section since I last checked.

One of which being they take screenshots from what you're watching and send them to third parties to identify it.

Fucking hell! Remember when every fucking device in your life wasn't a spy implanted in your home and working against your interests to try and sell your data? Remember how nice that was??

Remember when the TV was just a tool that would play the things you plugged into it?

For the first time ever, every Godzilla film, from 1954 to 2004, has their catalogue of English subtitles preserved in full*.

Starting this project back in 2019, I wanted to help ensure accessibility and accurate viewings of these films, while also preserving the efforts of distributors, translators, and fans, who have helped to bring this franchise to the masses.

This undertaking has evolved many of times, with multiple attempts with starting from scratch. For this final iteration, I realised it was best to leave these scripts in their original form - including any errors left in, alongside the inclusion of fan efforts.

In total, there is around 130 subtitle tracks that have been carefully OCR'd and/or processed. Given the sheer number, I have suffered fatigue many a times from this, and would like to give my apologies in causing any delays. Future updates will include more SFX titles, but for now, a rest is much needed.

Many thanks to everyone who helped out.

HOW TO TURN OFF GOOGLE AI in GMAIL:

Open Gmail in your browser

Click on the Gear Icon ⚙️ in the upper right

In the General Tab, scroll down to "Smart Features" and UNCHECK THE BOX. It is about halfway down.

Then, right below that is Google Workspace smart features. Click on the "Manage Workspace Smart Features" and make sure both toggles are OFF

soulseek - peer to peer downloading program, has most music you'd want. there's "rules" to it though and the UI is a little confusing, but you can figure it out. there's tutorials. i believe in you

cobalt.tools, ytiz.xyz, yt-dlp - mp3 downloaders, for the songs that you can't find on soulseek

musicbee - music player, extremely customiseable. reminds me of when i used itunes back in the day. has a lot of good features, including syncing music over to your phone

lastfm & listenbrainz - sites that keep track of your listening stats. i'd recommend this even if you still choose to use a music streaming service

syncedlyrics - cmd thing that gets you timed song lyrics, like the ones spotify has. there's no UI but it's easy enough to use. just grab the lyrics and timestamps it spits out and paste it into musicbee

music presence - program that shows what song you're listening to in your discord status, in case you use discord and enjoy the thought of other people seeing what you're listening to, which i do for some reason

MusicBrainz Picard - named after Starfleet's esteemed bald man, a program for all your tagging and renaming needs.

LineageOS (I use this one)

Graphene OS

Functionally they are virtually identical to stock Android. Android began as an open-source project, and these versions are built off of that.

If you wanna watch it I cannot recommend it enough; I just warn that it covers a LOT.